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The Government has pulled the rug out from under farmers across England, according to Alastair Carmichael

News and business reporter Chris Brayford discusses the dwindling trust between Government and farmers

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Farmer and meat retailer from Towcester, Northamptonshire - Ben Aveling

Could British farming be saved if Chancellor Rachel Reeves raised the Inheritance Tax threshold to £5 million?

It is important to understand the feelings of the farming community pre and post Budget

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on the latest from the fallout of the Sustainable Farming Incentive closure. Defra is under scrutiny over its failure to give farmers' notice as the industry questions whether all the budget has been spent. She also looks ahead to next week, a special podcast on Donald Trump, tariffs and what this means for machinery markets and UK farming going forward and the livestock team are heading to Borderway UK Dairy Expo at Carlisle this week, the first dairy show of the year

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This week from ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown analyses the fall out from the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), with the Farming Minister telling MPs that farmers were not given notice on closure as it would have led to a 'further spike in applications'. The National Trust says Defra's decision to close SFI to new applications will leave farmers facing a 'four month funding gap'. And she takes a look at the NFU's farmer confidence survey which is reportedly at an 'all time low'

Mr Dunn said: "Out of the £2.4 billion of budget allocated for the full panoply of schemes under the Agricultural Transition Plan, we need to know how much has been allocated to each element"